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by balloot 15y ago
Best of luck, though this strikes me as a "Everyone should have a pony!" sort of thing. You're basically asking someone to build some magic compiler that handles all the logic AND does so efficiently. It seems if this were possible it wou
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by balloot 15y ago
This is idiotic. Silicon Valley and all the surrounding areas vote overwhelmingly Democratic. One stupid piece of legistation doesn't overcome the fact that the GOP are science-hating religious zealots. Republicans have a LOT of work to
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by balloot 15y ago
Agreed. This reads to me like an attempt by a professor to show that his research being rejected makes him no different from all these other greats in the field. In reality, the vast majority of great papers are acknowledged as such soon
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by balloot 15y ago
But HOW is his talking point a "complete lie"? It is amazing to me that nobody either on that interview or in this comment thread can clearly and succinctly point out how the NBC exec was lying.
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by balloot 15y ago
So I'm going to play devil's advocate: The main talking point of the NBC exec is "This law will only effect foreign companies engaged in wholesale theft". It was never refuted on the interview, and I don't see it refuted in this comment thr
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by balloot 15y ago
Disagree. I think Cotton clearly won the debate. His "The law only affects foreign companies involved in wholesale piracy" talking point is persuasive and was never refuted.
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by balloot 15y ago
I unfortunately agree. I thought it was a very strong showing on Cotton's part, and he had a very clear talking point that he hammered home a dozen times ("This will only affect foreign companies with wholesale copyright infringement").
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by balloot 15y ago
That still doesn't explain why Google is opposed to the bill. I think there's a better explanation that is linked to the enforcement of situations such as "someone googles Pirate Bay and gets a link to the site". SOPA puts Google at fault
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by balloot 15y ago
After watching the video, it's clear that the argument of SOPA supporters is going to be "this will never affect US companies". Google and Facebook have come out very strongly against the bill, and I assume they did so not on a whim, but o
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by balloot 15y ago
What infuriates me is that both of the California Senators are co-sponsoring this piece of garbage. One of them is Dianne Feinstein, who is up for re-election this year. I'm a solid Democratic voter, but there is no way someone who sponso
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by balloot 15y ago
Many very good engineers don't do open source. Not to mention that as an employer, ideally people you hire put close to 100% of their development time into things that benefit their primary employer. Hiring someone who is a hard core open
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by balloot 15y ago
The world was a way different place 30 years ago. You couldn't reasonably have expected someone to have an extensive software portfolio or have experience at a tech startup. Now, both are commonplace among top hires.
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by balloot 15y ago
A mechanic is a business selling its services. An employee is an individual. It's an apples-to-oranges comparison.
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by balloot 15y ago
Here's my minimalist definition of "top-notch engineer" in regards to Silicon Valley startups: - has experience working in the early stages of a venture-backed startup - went to one of the top schools in the world, such as Stanford, MIT, Ha
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by balloot 15y ago
Because the labor market isn't perfectly liquid. Let's say a manager randomly decides that he's firing all the blond haired people in his company. Those people will be harmed. Even if perfectly competent at their jobs, they very well may
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by balloot 15y ago
Define "top-notch". Because under my definition of the term, I would expect there to be very few engineers in Hungary that match that description. IMHO, Silicon Valley works because it houses a hugely disproportionate amount of the very be
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by balloot 15y ago
You say you don't mention a number, but saying "I'm in the 90's" is basically the equivalent of saying "I make $90,000" as far as the negotiation is concerned.
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by balloot 15y ago
Dubious tax advice aside, I've never worked at a company where the contractors are treated equally to the full time employees. I would never work as a contractor simply because you are setting yourself up as a 2nd class citizen.
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by balloot 15y ago
Here's one thing I've always found reassuring: When I look at code I wrote a year or two ago, I invariably find a lot of things I could have done better that I didn't know of back then. This generally tells me that I have improved and I am
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by balloot 15y ago
http://www.crunchbase.com/company/golem-technologies Employees: 1 He's been doing this for almost a year and hasn't hired anyone. Sounds about right. Also, the website is taking 20s to serve any page. Maybe he should spend less time blo
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by balloot 15y ago
Why I won't work for you: 1) You are a self-important douche who writes lengthy blog posts on all the reasons you deem people unworthy of working with you.
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by balloot 15y ago
You seem to know a totally different set of engineers than I do. I work in Silicon Valley, and the vast majority of jobs here require on site presence. This is the case for a very specific reason - the most productive engineers work best
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by balloot 15y ago
I disagree with a fundamental assertion you make here. I think a software engineer has a very low ceiling when working remotely. Engineers that I consider "good" or better not only must be on site most of the time, but they WANT to be on
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by balloot 15y ago
I would be surprised if 37signals value is .1% of Google. Google's market cap is a little over $200B, so .1% makes for a $200M company.
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by balloot 15y ago
May I ask what open source products you view as "magic"? Linux is great, but I guess I don't view an OS that has been in development for 20 years and is still mainly constrained to server apps as "magic". And there's very few other open s
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by balloot 15y ago
I don't get what it is about software engineers that make so many of them think they're entitled to work remotely. It seems to start with the fact that many engineers think 100% of their job is coding, and therefore they can get "more" work
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by balloot 15y ago
I totally agree. I felt a number of the Master's level CS classes were more like hazings than classes. It was like some professors were most interested in making their particular field of interest seem insanely difficult at the expense of
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by balloot 15y ago
Wow. They didn't require knowledge of calculus? I took the actual CS 229 at Stanford and a class that doesn't require calculus at all would only be able to touch on a small fraction of topics. My worry, which is similar to the worry of th
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by balloot 15y ago
My problem with this post is the assumption that the Kindle Fire would have blown away the iPad with a few more months' development time. Lots have companies have tried to beat the iPhone/iPad. Nobody has even come close. This guy's whole
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by balloot 15y ago
I am a software engineer who works mainly on a Mac. I am fully aware of the existence of .DS_Store files, but it has never bothered me nearly as much as it bothers this guy. IMHO, this falls into the category of "it's much easier to critic

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